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Definition of barfly in English: barflynounPlural barflies ˈbɑːflʌɪˈbɑrˌflaɪ informal A person who spends much of their time drinking in bars. Example sentencesExamples - I had gone from being a barfly to a social butterfly, and was starting to feel resentment at the thought of going to a bar and buying my own round.
- I know he was an alcoholic thanks to the barflies in honky tonks like the Bloody Bucket who gave him beer.
- It's like buying the old barfly drinks to see what he'll come out with next.
- Last Saturday afternoon, even before I'd hooked up with the regular barflies, I had a pretty good idea where the focus would be.
- Many years ago I had a buddy who was a regular barfly; any night of the week when he wasn't working he'd be at the corner dive knocking back a few cold ones.
- In ‘Barred,’ a woman in a bar reluctantly engages in conversation with a barfly, both of them revealing a little more about human nature than was probably intended.
- The few barflies left in the joint turn back to their drinks as if nothing had happened.
- The barflies at Bombay Beach's Ski Inn drink, smoke and gossip about daily life.
- Meanwhile, frustrated barflies screamed the actual lyrics and made instructive gestures at Brian, who smiled vaguely, raised his arms above his head, and gyrated.
- His handshake is firm, the kind of grasp that must once have been very useful in dealing with over-friendly barflies and demanding directors.
- The judges are randomly selected from barflies from old ‘Cheers’ episodes although Norm has yet to appear and Frasier has a decent series of his own.
- In the meantime, Tully has met up with and taken in a pathetic barfly named Oma whose husband is incarcerated.
- Several have announced they're retiring and not standing for re-election, while the rest are all but invisible in the electorate, except as sad barflies late at night in Mitchell Street nightclubs.
- The barfly was simultaneously pinching one barmaid's butt and vomiting into another's cleavage!
- Manufacturing had moved South, shoppers were heading for suburban malls, a decent restaurant was almost impossible to find, and the nightlife was a barfly's lament.
- At quarter to midnight on March 30, thousands of barflies across New York lit a cigarette and took a resigned puff.
- Tomei meanwhile reminds what a great actress she really is in her portrayal of Laura, a fellow barfly with an ambiguous background who briefly becomes involved with Chinaski.
- When she returned to Britain, her follow-up project, Early Doors, a sitcom about a Manchester pub and its family of barflies, was also ill-starred.
- It's not quite as exciting or controversial as tearing up a picture of the Pope, or declaring herself as a bisexual Catholic priest, but it's odd enough behaviour to stir the barflies from their malaise.
- The place was pretty empty, a few random ferals playing pool and a couple of other barflies drinking bourbon and coke.
Synonyms drinker, heavy drinker, problem drinker, drunk, drunkard, alcoholic, dipsomaniac, alcohol-abuser, alcohol addict, person with a drink problem
Definition of barfly in US English: barflynounˈbärˌflīˈbɑrˌflaɪ informal A person who spends much time drinking in bars. Example sentencesExamples - In the meantime, Tully has met up with and taken in a pathetic barfly named Oma whose husband is incarcerated.
- In ‘Barred,’ a woman in a bar reluctantly engages in conversation with a barfly, both of them revealing a little more about human nature than was probably intended.
- The few barflies left in the joint turn back to their drinks as if nothing had happened.
- Several have announced they're retiring and not standing for re-election, while the rest are all but invisible in the electorate, except as sad barflies late at night in Mitchell Street nightclubs.
- Many years ago I had a buddy who was a regular barfly; any night of the week when he wasn't working he'd be at the corner dive knocking back a few cold ones.
- The place was pretty empty, a few random ferals playing pool and a couple of other barflies drinking bourbon and coke.
- It's not quite as exciting or controversial as tearing up a picture of the Pope, or declaring herself as a bisexual Catholic priest, but it's odd enough behaviour to stir the barflies from their malaise.
- Last Saturday afternoon, even before I'd hooked up with the regular barflies, I had a pretty good idea where the focus would be.
- The barflies at Bombay Beach's Ski Inn drink, smoke and gossip about daily life.
- Tomei meanwhile reminds what a great actress she really is in her portrayal of Laura, a fellow barfly with an ambiguous background who briefly becomes involved with Chinaski.
- At quarter to midnight on March 30, thousands of barflies across New York lit a cigarette and took a resigned puff.
- It's like buying the old barfly drinks to see what he'll come out with next.
- Meanwhile, frustrated barflies screamed the actual lyrics and made instructive gestures at Brian, who smiled vaguely, raised his arms above his head, and gyrated.
- The judges are randomly selected from barflies from old ‘Cheers’ episodes although Norm has yet to appear and Frasier has a decent series of his own.
- His handshake is firm, the kind of grasp that must once have been very useful in dealing with over-friendly barflies and demanding directors.
- The barfly was simultaneously pinching one barmaid's butt and vomiting into another's cleavage!
- When she returned to Britain, her follow-up project, Early Doors, a sitcom about a Manchester pub and its family of barflies, was also ill-starred.
- I know he was an alcoholic thanks to the barflies in honky tonks like the Bloody Bucket who gave him beer.
- I had gone from being a barfly to a social butterfly, and was starting to feel resentment at the thought of going to a bar and buying my own round.
- Manufacturing had moved South, shoppers were heading for suburban malls, a decent restaurant was almost impossible to find, and the nightlife was a barfly's lament.
Synonyms drinker, heavy drinker, problem drinker, drunk, drunkard, alcoholic, dipsomaniac, alcohol-abuser, alcohol addict, person with a drink problem
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